Begin warns Beirut civilians to flee during Lebanon crisis
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin urged civilians in West Beirut to evacuate with guaranteed safety excluding a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the city. He warned aid talks and a planned PLO withdrawal may fail while signaling U S involvement and conditions for a cease fire.
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Beirut
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Syria
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Jerusalem
Ariel Sharon
Israel Defense Forces
Washington
Genes and environment mold who becomes an alcoholic
Government researchers led by Dr. Robert Cloninger report inherited tendencies and family life both influence whether youths become alcoholics. The Sweden study followed 913 women and 862 men adopted as children, identifying two alcoholism types and showing genetic and environmental factors jointly raise risk, with maternal alcoholism notably increasing daughters’ risk.
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UPI
Robert Cloninger
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Jewish Hospital
Health and Human Services Department
Sweden
Reddy files for divorce in Los Angeles
Singer Helen Reddy 39 filed for divorce from husband and manager Jeffrey Wald in Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. They married in 1968 and have a 9 year old son Jordan Sommers Wald. child support and property rights to be decided later.
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Women's Liberation Movement
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Brady Readmitted For Mild Thrombophlebitis Recurrence
White House secretary James Brady, 41, was readmitted to George Washington Hospital for a mild recurrence of thrombophlebitis in his left leg. He is in good condition and being treated with medication following surgery after the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt. Later, Jeff Fenn, a 26 year old Sparkletts Water delivery man, aided actress Lucy Webb after a hit and run, providing the culprits license plate details.
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Jeff Fenn
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Benjamin
Boy Kidnapped by Dad Found in Nepal
An 11 year old boy abducted from a New Hampshire school bus in 1979 by his father was traced to Nepal. U.S. Embassy officials located Alexander Gong in Kathmandu and reunited him with his mother Nita Gong at Boston Logan Airport. The boy had been placed in a private boarding school after his father entered a Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
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Georgia Supreme Court Reverses Custody Loss for Blackburn Mother
The Georgia Supreme Court returned custody of 3 year old Nicholas Blackburn to his mother Kathleen Blackburn a white divorcee from Millen The court 5 to 2 reversed a Jenkins County ruling that she was unfit for having an illegitimate racially mixed daughter The decision cited lack of present unfitness and overruled the lower court that had granted custody to the paternal grandmother Nancy Blackburn The case drew national attention amid discrimination claims.
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Storm damages 100 homes in two New Jersey retirement villages
A severe storm in Bayville New Jersey damaged up to 100 homes in Holiday City and Silver Ridge retirement communities Tuesday evening. Police report no injuries while 200 residents were left homeless and five houses were leveled. Mayor Morey declared a state of emergency.
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British journalists freed from spying charges in Argentina
Three British journalists Ian Mather Tony Prime and Simon Winchester were freed on bail six thousand five hundred dollars each and allowed to return to London after being charged with spying at a southern mainland military installation. They were arrested April 13 at Rio Grande as the Falklands conflict began and face trial in two months. Winchester pledged to return and defend their actions as legitimate journalism.
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Sunday Times
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Falkland Islands
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Usuhara
Senators approve stop gap money bill
The Senate backed a Hatfield Stockman compromise emergency spending bill to fund agencies through Sept 30 and repeal the audit proof tax deduction for Congress. It would restore a $3000 annual limit on living expences for lawmakers and avoid a presidential veto, with House action pending.
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Presbyterian panel votes to end 121 year separation
The United Presbyterian Church and the southern branch move toward reunion after 121 years apart. The 571 to 18 vote by the northern assembly follows 344 to 30 in the south two weeks earlier, with final approval by regional presbyteries awaited. The merged church would total about 3.4 million members.
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Hartford
194Th General Assembly
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Knox Presbyterian Church
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First Presbyterian Church
David Roth
Kensington
Roth
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
Indians find sea monster washed ashore in India
Officials and photographers converged on a southeast Indian beach where fishermen claimed to have dragged a five ton sea monster from the Bay of Bengal. The creature had elephant like ears eyes and mouth and a tail about 27 feet long and 15 feet in girth. It took 500 fishermen to haul it from the water drawing crowds to Pudupet village. Details were sketchy.
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India
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Bay of Bengal
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